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echo: wperfect
to: FREDERICK SOHN
from: AUKE REITSMA
date: 1996-06-18 19:39:00
subject: Wild Indent in 6.0

Hi Frederick,
On 15 Jun 96, 11:49, Frederick Sohn wrote to Auke Reitsma
 FS> Auke:
 FS>    You mention to Anne Ehrenshaft that "two subsequent spaces
 FS> _never_ should occur."
 FS>    If you mean two contiguous spaces, as I suspect you do, then
I do mean "contiguous" ... could find the word at the time ;-)
 FS> how about this?  You select your fonts and set your word and
 FS> letter spacing for relatively high compression. Then, to get a
 FS> little more space between sentences, you hit the space bar twice,
 FS> with kerning enabled and the kerning table set to kern the two
 FS> spaces to roughly 1.5 spaces.
It's an idea ... but I use a single space and an advance code, placed by a 
macro, if necessary. In that way you can search and destroy those 'doubles' 
easily. E.g. after inserting someone elses junk^H^H^H^H^H document.
Greetings from
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 /_|__|  Auke Reitsma, Delft, The Netherlands.
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email: Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl
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